(a) Per 1,000 live births.(b) Medium variant projection.(c) Healthy life expectancy at birth summarises the expected number of years to be lived in what might be termed the equivalent years of 'full health'.

Source: Population Division of the Department of Economic and Social Affairs of the United Nations, Secretariat World Population Prospects: The 2002 Revision and World Population Prospects: The 2001 Revision </esa.un.org/unpp>, accessed 7 April 2003; The World Health Organization, The World Health Report 2002: Reducing risks, promoting healthy life <www.who.int/whr/2002/whr2002_annex4.pdf>, accessed 7 April 2003.

HEALTH SERVICES AND EXPENDITURE

Reference year

Health expenditure as % of GDP

Health expenditure per capita at PPP(a)

Reference year

Doctors per 1,000 population

Reference year

Acute hospital beds per 1,000 population

Country

%

$US '000

no.

no.

Australia

2000

8.3

2.2

1998

2.5

1999

3.8

Canada

2000

r9.1

r2.5

2000

2.1

1999

3.3

China (excludes SARs and Taiwan Province)

. .

n.a.

n.a.

. .

n.a.

. .

n.a.

France

2000

9.5

2.3

2000

3.3

2000

4.2

Greece

2000

8.3

1.4

1999

4.4

1999

4.0

Hong Kong (SAR of China)

. .

n.a.

n.a.

. .

n.a.

. .

n.a.

Indonesia

. .

n.a.

n.a.

. .

n.a.

. .

n.a.

Italy

2000

8.1

2.0

2000

6.0

1999

4.5

Japan

2000

7.8

2.0

2000

1.9

. .

n.a.

Korea (Republic of)

2000

5.9

0.9

2000

1.3

2000

5.2

Malaysia

. .

n.a.

n.a.

. .

n.a.

. .

n.a.

New Zealand

2000

8.0

1.6

2000

2.2

1991

7.0

Papua New Guinea

. .

n.a.

n.a.

. .

n.a.

. .

n.a.

Singapore

. .

n.a.

n.a.

. .

n.a.

. .

n.a.

Sweden

1998

7.9

1.7

1999

2.9

2000

2.4

United Kingdom

2000

7.3

1.8

2000

1.8

2000

3.3

United States of America

2000

13.0

4.6

1999

2.8

2000

3.0

Viet Nam

. .

n.a.

n.a.

. .

n.a.

. .

n.a.

(a) PPP (purchasing power parities) are the rates of currency conversion which eliminate the differences in price levels between countries.

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